"Time Machine" 

Oil on canvas , 165 cm x 165 cm

“Time Machine,” painting depicting a woman in a red dress with a black fan, with collage-like background of sketches and images that evoke the atmosphere of Monte Carlo around 1900. The dress she is wearing, red with black polka dots and black straps, as well as a pearl necklace, is unlike anything we have seen in today’s fashion. The vintage backdrop includes architectural drawings of buildings, street scenes with people and carriages, and portraits of historical figures. The overall atmosphere is elegant and reminiscent of a bygone era. Blending elements of portraiture and historical documentation really earning Plotnikov’s title in Monaco as the only— artist to depict Monte-Carlo's complete visual history, creating a genre uniquely his own.